Top IUML leaders resign

Malappuram, Kerala May 18 (UNI) Owning moral responsibility for reverses in the recent Kerala State Assembly elections, four top Indian Union Muslims League leaders, including General Secretary P K Kunhalikutty, have tendered their resignations.

The letters were handed over to party supremo Panakkad Syed Mohammedali Shihab Thangal at his residence here last evening.

Others who submitted resignations were Treasurer E Ahamed (Union Minister of State for External Affairs) and Secretaries E T Mohammed Basheer and K Kutty Ahamed Kutty.

A decision on the resignation would be taken by the party state Working Committee, scheduled to meet here on May 22, party sources said.

Speculations were abound on the possibility of change of guard in the wake of the worst ever electoral debacle of the party. It won only eight seats against 17.

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